Guṇapāramitā

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Key Term	guṇapāramitā
In Tibetan Script	ཡོན་ཏན་ཕ་རོལ་ཏུ་ཕྱིན་པ་
Wylie Tibetan Transliteration	yon tan pha rol tu phyin pa
Devanagari Sanskrit Script	गुणपारमिता
Romanized Sanskrit	guṇapāramitā
Chinese Script	功德波羅蜜‎
Chinese Pinyin	gōngdébōluómì
Japanese Script	kudokuharamitsu
Term Type	Noun
Source Language	Sanskrit
Basic Meaning	perfection of qualities
Definitions

The six or ten types of practices which lead an individual to Buddhahood. The practice of perfections is particularly important in Mahāyāna Buddhism in which the entire path of the Bodhisattva to reach full enlightenment is included in the six or ten perfections. The six perfections are that of giving, of discipline, patience, zeal, meditation, and wisdom. The perfection of skill-in-means, power, aspirations, power and pristine wisdom are added to them ten perfections.